FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III ordered an internal investigation into whether bureau agents interfered with midterm congressional elections by disclosing a corruption probe that undermined the re-election bid of Republican Rep. Curt Weldon weeks before the Nov. 7 vote.
The internal probe was disclosed in a Senate Judiciary Committee report containing the FBI’s written answers to questions posed by committee members.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, asked why FBI agents searched the office of Mr. Weldon’s daughter and a business associate three weeks before the elections.
The accusation here is that the FBI, and lingering Clintonistas therein, timed their official investigation of Mr. Weldon to sink his chances for re-election.
The trouble with that is that, while it’s partly true, in 2006, the FBI was run by a Republican White House. And Mr. Weldon, who made a name for himself by exposing the Able Danger scandal, (i.e. where American military intelligence’s AQ-spying unit of that name was forever hamstrung in their effort to discover terrorist plots by egalitarian crazies and their obsession with not “racially profiling”), which encompassed both the Clinton and Bush Administrations, wasn’t well liked on either side of the January 20, 2001 schism. The Bush White House had just as much motivation to throw him under the bus as the Clintonites did, and I think it was a joint effort — such an effort could not have been successful without White House participation or complicity.
